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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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The second phase will be who can get the right combination lean back, lean forward, interaction, enhanced data, and make it fun. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision.